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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A’s goal is to act as a national mirror—taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

2016 Out-of-this-World Highlights

Lots of cool planetary observing this coming spring and summer, as well as two lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses… but the real treat comes as we prepare for NEXT year’s total solar eclipse across the US.

Astronomer and Jazz and Funk Sax player Dillon Brout gives us real astro food for thought this Thursday at the Franklin Institute as he reviews our evolving understanding about the fate of our universe. Dillon originally worked with one of the three scientists who discovered dark matter, Nobel Laurate Adam Riess.

China’s Chang’e 3 lunar rover is still transmitting data although it’s now a stationary explorer. And China has serious plans to expand its explorations of the moon all the way up to and through manned circumlunar missions and maybe more.